As an owner of SocialAdr, a social media marketing web service, I get the opportunity to hear what people think about different SEO techniques on a daily basis. Occasionally I learn a thing or two. But most of the time it’s just plain wrong. Social media involves many people from around the world “talking” about a webpage from many different…

I stumbled across this site recently and thought it was a pretty clever idea. YouLikeHits.com allows you to: Get Twitter followers Get Facebook likes Get MySpace followers Get StumbleUpon followers Get Digg followers Get visitors to ANY website And you can do all of this for FREE, it just takes time. Here’s how it works, using Twitter as an example: Enter…

A friend of mine was recently wondering, “What’s the difference between being ranked #1 and #2 on Google?” He guessed that it wouldn’t be very much, maybe like 10% max. Well, surprisingly it’s much higher than that! While I haven’t seen any data from Google for the click-through rate averages for each position, there’s data floating around from AOL that could…

I recently figured out a neat trick for getting a YouTube video to show up on Page 1 of Google search results. We all know that YouTube = Google, so that makes this technique even more powerful than if it was done with some random video site that may be shut down or Google may someday decide to ignore. Disclaimer:…

SocialMarker is a free tool that I use fairly often. It makes it a heck of a lot easier to submit my sites to social bookmarking services, than if I was to do it manually. After my negative review of SocialBot yesterday I figured I should discuss what I do find useful for social bookmarking. So why do I use…

Today I’m going to talk about Free Traffic System, which touts itself as being able to give people “free targeted website traffic in any niche”. Well first of all, as you probably found out when you were 5 years old, nothing in the world is entirely free (except bad advice and in some cities drinks for ladies on Tuesdays). So…

The more I learn about this new service being developed by StumbleUpon, the more psyched I get. If you haven’t heard of StumbleUpon, they are one of many social bookmarking websites, but they are unique in the fact that they offer users the ability to just browse or “stumble” through a never-ending list of sites recommended by other users. Pretty…

I’m not gonna lie to ya – when I first found out about Twitter I wasn’t impressed. I’m the guy who has NEVER (no lie) set his FaceBook “status” because I didn’t want all my friends knowing where I was or what I was doing 24 hours a day. As far as I could tell, Twitter was just like a…

This is what I use for submitting my sites to website directories. I know there’s a debate about how useful “directories” are for improving search engine ranking, but it’s hard to argue with the benefits of getting a bunch of 1-way backlinks for free. Some people complain that directories are a waste of time because “they’re sooooo 1999” (ie. Web…